>One way around that may be something I was recently exposed to with a project developed for an international franchiser. Instead of seperating the tax from the purchase amount, they, instead, included the tax with the price. The tax would be based on the catalog (full), or "retail value" of the of the purchase, even though the franchisee would only pay 50% of the retail value.

It is not intended to resolve the issue by hidding the tax in the cost. There is a problem right now and this has to be fixed by Mr. Flaherty's administration.

Also, I have already dropped the PUTM from 142.00$ to 99.95$ a few months ago. So, that means I am absording a significant lost there.